[mythtv-users] Channel detection trouble shooting assistance needed.....

[Mark Perkins]

> On 24 Jan 2015, at 4:54 am, "John Moore (CompuCom Systems Inc)" <v-johmo at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Morning,
> So I am working on my MythTV again finally.  An after updating the MythBuntu box as well as the MythTV front an back end, things look like they are trying to work but not.
> 
> I am using Comcast cable and using a HD Homerun Prime box with the Comcast card.
> 
> So what's going on is channels 2, 3, 4, & 5 show up only 1 time an work with no problem.
> 
> But after that, I see multiple instances of the same channel.  An example I see 7 instances of channel 7.  An 10 instances of channel 8.  When  I goto one of the channels with multiple instances, I get the following error...
> 
> "channel unrecoverable"
> 
> What's even better is if I connect directly to the HDHR via XBMC added via UPNP, I see 1 instance of each channel an ALL channels work great.  But the MythTV front client on XBMC an the MythTV Frontend on the MythBuntu box fails.
> 
> What is needed to troubleshooting this?
> 
> John Moore
> OSG VM Solutions Team
> _______________________________________________

I don't recall the prior background, but going into mythtv-setup and doing a 'delete all channels on all hosts' and redoing that part of the setup maybe a good idea if you have accumulated multiple copies of the same channel.